How Firebird Youth Theater is really taking off this season
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At 13, most adolescents are busy starting social media accounts. Not Leo Lion: He was busy starting his own theatre company. Now 16-years old, the homeschooled Renaissance man (actor, filmmaker, playwright, and artist) founded the all-teen Firebird Youth Theater in 2013 so he could...

A sketch-comedy nerd shares some of his secrets
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Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process.
For 10 years, until parenthood ruined me for comedy, I was a writer and performer in an award-winning sketch-comedy troupe in Texas: the Latino Comedy Project. We put on full-length...

Why writer/performer Eliza Bent improvises a key moment in her new show Toilet Fire
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Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process.
For me, the challenge of making a solo show was wanting to avoid the genre's clichés: the stories from real life, the self-reflection, the...

Why designer Doss Freel used trash to create his latest set
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Welcome to Behind the Scene, TDF Stages' ongoing series where theatre artists write about their creative process.
The cliché of the NYC starving artist is almost as old as the city itself. But what's it really like these days for an aspiring artist in this ever-gentrifying town?...

Site-specific theatre pioneer Anne Hamburger's new outdoor festival aims to turn passersby into active viewers
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In the '80s and '90s, Anne Hamburger's theatre company, En Garde Arts, produced a string of shows with boundary-pushing artists such as Charles Mee, Anne Bogart, and Tina Landau that used NYC as their stage. During that time, En Garde...

A new theatre company passionately believes they can
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Attracting young-adult audiences to the theatre has long been a challenge due to skyrocketing ticket prices and a perceived disconnect from mainstream culture. But Masterworks Theater Company hopes to change that. Founded by veteran New York City producer Eric Krebs, the troupe specializes...

If you're planning to be in the Theatre District next Tuesday evening, June 9, don't be surprised if you see Katharine Cornell, Mary Pickford, or Dorothy Parker sashay by. Those creative heroines and many more historic ladies will be portrayed by current artists and members of the League of Professional Theatre Women (LPTW) in the org's third annual...

In our brand-new series, Behind the Scene, playwright Qui Nguyen shares the challenges of mounting his latest show, Six Rounds of Vengeance
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When we decided to launch Behind the Scene --- an examination of the creation of a difficult sequence as told by the playwright --- we immediately reached out to Qui Nguyen. As cofounder of the Obie Award-winning...